Get unread emails one by one only from Inbox folder in MIME

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Get unread emails one by one only from Inbox folder in MIME

Sunil 1

Hi Experts,

How to get unread emails one by one only from Inbox folder in MIME ?

I used below microsoft graph endpoint -
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/Inbox/messages?$filter=isRead+ne+true

It give by default 10 results. I can add an additional filter top=1. Is this right ?
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/Inbox/messages?$filter=isRead+ne+true&top=1

Responses so far received are in JSON. How to get responses in MIME ? $value seems not supported for collections(messages)
Appreciate your assistance!

Many Thanks,
Sunil

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Glen Scales 4,446

It give by default 10 results. I can add an additional filter top=1. Is this right ?

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/Inbox/messages?$filter=isRead+ne+true&top=1

using Top will limit the results return no filter them if you want to make sure you always get the last message in the inbox you should also use orderby

Responses so far received are in JSON. How to get responses in MIME ? $value seems not supported for collections(messages)

Appreciate your assistance!

You can't return mime using the messages collection it must be done per message using the id of the message and the $value endpoint if you want to request multiple messages in one request then you can batch them https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/json-batching (you can do 4 concurrent request of 20 dependson)

Sunil 1 Reputation point

2022-07-27T06:43:12.26+00:00

What is the best way to get unread mails one by one from Inbox folder alone in MIME ?

Is it like, i should get ids of unread mails from inbox and iterate over to get each mail details in MIME ?

Essentially, I'm looking at reading (Unread from Inbox only) mails in MIME one by one.
When i read an email in MIME - I should be able to get an email content with all its attachments together in single response.
Would you help and assist further on same.

Also, possibility of deleting an email after read. Is it like we should issue a DELETE request to particular id of an email again ?

Many Thanks, Sunil
Glen Scales 4,446 Reputation points

2022-07-28T00:13:44.507+00:00

Is it like, i should get ids of unread mails from inbox and iterate over to get each mail details in MIME ?

Yes you need to make one request that first gets the Id's of the Messages then you can either request or batch request MIME for those Id's/Messages

(note just accessing a Message via the Graph won't mark it as Read you need another operation to do that if want you want to do https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/message-update?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http)

Also, possibility of deleting an email after read. Is it like we should issue a DELETE request to particular id of an email again ?

yes just use the Delete endpoint https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/message-delete?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

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